The Visit
"What do you mean, 'she's in the hospital?!?!'" Jason asked Scootaloo.
"I don't know completely, something about the storm over the Everfree, and some horrible crash she had while trying to keep it from spreading." Jason hurriedly turned to the audience.
"I have to cut this short, guys, sorry." There was a groan from the audience, and Jason turned back to Scoots. The manager came up with a bag, presumably filled with bits.
"Come back sometime." He said, smiling. "Hope everything goes okay."
"Yeah, hopefully, but I kinda doubt it. Thanks for this." He shook the bag, and turned back to Scoots. "Lets go." Jason set down his guitar and trotted after Scootaloo, who had already gotten a fairly large head start. He caught up to her in the street. She was galloping at full speed, which was only a brisk trot for Jason. Finding this movement speed to be too slow, he turned to Scoots, motioning for her to stop. "Hey Scoots, hop on, we're never going to get there like this." He stopped, and helped Scootaloo onto his back, situating her between his wings. "Where to?"
She pointed forward. "Go to the end of this street, and then take a right." He galloped off, careful to keep Scootaloo from falling off his back. "Turn here." He stuck out a wing, and attempted to use the drag to help him make the corner that Scoots had left him unprepared for. Scootaloo almost rolled off his back before he stuck his other wing out to catch her. She quickly recovered, and re-situated herself on Jason's back. "The hospital's right over there." She pointed to a large white building with a red cross on the building's face. He put on a final burst of speed, and upon reaching the building, slowed down and pushed the glass doors open. He walked in to find most of Dash's friends, and the rest of the CMC. Applebloom noticed the duo's entry first.
"Where were ya, Scoots, could you've gone any slower?"
"You try running all the way to that fancy restaurant in town, then all the way back. It's not like I have my scooter; I left it at the clubhouse." Jason ignored the resulting argument, dropped off Scoots, and walked over to Twilight, who was slumped in one of the hospital chairs. He figured that if anyone knew about what happened, it would be her, seeing as no one was behind the front desk.
"What exactly happened, Twilight?" She looked up, a few lingering tears in her eyes, and tried to speak.
"S-she was apparently trying to stop a storm over the Everfree, but the weather team couldn't make a dent, or stop it in any way, and then the storm started to send down a tornado spiral." She took a ragged breath. "The last time Ponyville had a tornado, most of the town was wiped off the map." She paused again. "The point is, Dash flew over to the vortex, in an attempt to stop it before it got to the ground, because there's no way to stop it after it touches down. Let's just say, she succeeded, and Ponyville is no longer in danger."
"But she obviously got hurt, judging by your general demeanor."
"She was flung into the ground by the tornado, and landed on her wings, which were horribly mangled and broken. She's lying in a hospital room right now." She looked like she was going to cry again.
"So is she stable?"
"So far, yes, but the main concern is over the eventual status of her wings. I've never even seen wings that broken before." A doctor walked out into the room, flipping through a pad of paper on a clipboard, and sighed, looking around.
"Is there a Twilight Sparkle present?" Twilight rose from her seat.
"Yes." she walked over to the doctor, who proceeded to whisper some things to her, while making a few gestures. Her expression got steadily worse, which Jason had previously thought impossible. Evidently the doctor didn't have good news. The doctor finished whispering to her, and retreated back into one of the hospital rooms. She slowly walked back to Jason, a mortified expression on her face.
"What's wrong now?"
"T-they said, well the doctor said, he s-said that--"
"Out with it!"
"They said that they have to amputate Dash's wings, he says they're too mangled to save, that even if they could get them back together, Dash would still probably never fly again." She shut her eyes.
"Oh, fuck no!!" Jason pushed past her, attempting to get into the hospital room.
"You can't go in there Alternis!!" She tried to grab him. He threw her back with his magic.
"Get off of me!!" She looked completely confused, sudden burst of magic from a pegasus and all, and before she could react, he turned and threw the hospital room door off its hinges with his magic, slamming it into the wall opposite. The ponies in the hospital room all stared, slack jawed, at what they had just witnessed.
Jason ran inside to find a terrified group of doctors staring between him and the removed door, who looked like they had not started the operation yet, luckily. He moved towards the form of Dash, but some of the doctors tried to stop him. He pushed them up against the walls with his magic, and held them there. He pulled the sheet part of the way off of Dash, and recoiled slightly. She was on her stomach, and sported the most mangled wings he had ever seen, partially covered in blood. Not that he had really seen that many mangled wings, but they were far worse than the last time he had needed to heal her. At least she didn't look too injured other than what had happened to her wings. He sighed, and without another thought, started to heal her, attempting to do so as quickly as possible. Twilight ran around the corner, looking enraged.
"Who are you and what have you done with Alternis?" He sighed. He didn't expect that he was going to lose this new identity so quickly. He could feel his disguise starting to falter with the huge amounts of energy rushing into Dash.
"There never was an Alternis! I thought at least you, Twilight Sparkle, would be able to figure that out." He needed to buy some time, so that he could finish healing her wings. They were currently spasming around as the bones snapped back together and set into the correct places. Jason looked at it with disgust. Twilight followed his gaze, and flinched.
"What are you doing to her?!?! Making her wings worse?" She cast some sort of spell at him. He blocked it with a shield.
"I'm fixing her." He looked down at his arm. Part of his disguise flew off like a piece of burning paper, quickly disintegrating into a small green flame. The transformation slowly spread along his fore arms like a kind of weird rash, and onto the rest of his body, slowly pulling off the rest of his disguise. Dash was almost healed. He was getting weaker by the second. As soon as he finished this spell, he realized, he would be unable to fight Twilight, and would have to immediately make his escape, or face capture. As he thought this, the walls turned a light shade of lavender. He assumed that Twilight was doing something, and he hoped that it wouldn't impede the healing spell. Said spell ended as the last of his disguise burned off, and his shield involuntarily fell. Jason charged up his horn, trying to teleport away. All he was left with was a horrible pain in his head, and no change of venue. The spell Twilight had done with the walls must have crated some sort of prison, or at least an anti teleportation zone. 'Great, so now I have no escape and no power. Things are looking great right now.'
"I'll ask you again, what did you do with Alternis?" Jason stared at her in disbelief, amazed that she was so adverse and suspicious to him when he arrived, and was now assuming that he was never a changeling. He didn't answer, and instead moved some of Dash's hair gently out of her eyes, and smiled slightly. Twilight picked Jason up in her magic, and slammed him into the ceiling, which promptly cracked some of the chitin on his back. The wooziness he was feeling from the teleportation attempt intensified. "Where is he?"
"He doesn't exist!"
"Wrong answer." She slammed him into the floor, creating a crack in one of his legs, and a large dent in the floor. Jason tried to get up, but only managed in partially propping up the front of his body with his uninjured fore leg. He reached an arm towards her, trying to form words but only ended up removing some of the blood that had pooled in his mouth. The action of him stretching out his arm splattered her fur with some blood that had already begun to come through the crack on his arm. He pulled his arm back, and stared at the new crack.
Then he passed out.
i litterally just finished the last chapter, went to my favorites, and BAM!!! new chapter! Also, this won't end well
Will to say that when Dash comes to she is going on a pissing rampage on Twilight would be kinda an understatement.
Well jason is fucked as long as dash is sleeping.
Until Rainbow wakes up enough to defend him, Twilights going be beating the tar outta Jason. Oof.
Ximinez: Now, old woman -- you are accused of heresy on three counts -- heresy by thought, heresy by word, heresy by deed, and heresy by action -- *four* counts. Do you confess?
Wilde: I don't understand what I'm accused of.
Ximinez: Ha! Then we'll make you understand! Biggles! Fetch...THE CUSHIONS!
[JARRING CHORD]
[Biggles holds out two ordinary modern household cushions]
Biggles: Here they are, lord.
Ximinez: Now, old lady -- you have one last chance. Confess the heinous sin of heresy, reject the works of the ungodly -- *two* last chances. And you shall be free -- *three* last chances. You have three last chances, the nature of which I have divulged in my previous utterance.
Wilde: I don't know what you're talking about.
Ximinez: Right! If that's the way you want it -- Cardinal! Poke her with the soft cushions!
[Biggles carries out this rather pathetic torture]
Ximinez: Confess! Confess! Confess!
Biggles: It doesn't seem to be hurting her, lord.
Ximinez: Have you got all the stuffing up one end?
Biggles: Yes, lord.
Ximinez [angrily hurling away the cushions]: Hm! She is made of harder stuff! Cardinal Fang! Fetch...THE COMFY CHAIR!
[JARRING CHORD]
[Zoom into Fang's horrified face]
Fang [terrified]: The...Comfy Chair?
[Biggles pushes in a comfy chair -- a really plush one]
Ximinez: So you think you are strong because you can survive the soft cushions. Well, we shall see. Biggles! Put her in the Comfy Chair!
[They roughly push her into the Comfy Chair]
Ximinez [with a cruel leer]: Now -- you will stay in the Comfy Chair until lunch time, with only a cup of coffee at eleven. [aside, to Biggles] Is that really all it is?
Biggles: Yes, lord.
Ximinez: I see. I suppose we make it worse by shouting a lot, do we? Confess, woman. Confess! Confess! Confess! Confess
Biggles: I confess!
Ximinez: Not you!
I have a feeling Dash's going super saiyan next chapter.
I'm just saiyan'
It seems a little OOC for Twilight to be that violent, even if she thinks one of her friends has been kidnapped. She just isn't mean enough.
Wow, you updated early today. Nice plot twist, can't wait til tomorrow to hear what happens.
You know, this whole 'Twilight is an idiot that cannot recognise healing spell when she sees one and first thing she does is mutilate/kill the changeling that deliberately does nothing to defend itself, without even thinking' thing is kind of killing the character here...
I mean, I can understand a lot but this is simply too much... beating a suspect beyond the ability to remain conscious is not a way of interrogation. It's not even a torture, really... it's just senseless mutilation of living being and I can hardly see anypony acting this way, much less Twilight. It's not that easy to hurt others. You need specific mindset, reasons be damned, really. You have to be on it from the very beginning of your life or face a great tragedy from the hands/hooves of a perpetrator or it's kind. And frankly, nothing the changelings did to Twi can justify her reactions. Apprehend and interrogate? Yes. Attack in a way she did it? Hell no! She aimed to harm, not even bothering to check Dash... sick reaction, really.
I know she wanted to incapacitate him, but there are better ways of doing so than beating senseless... I'm rambling and repeating myself... great... oh, well, shows how many emotions your fic stirs within me.
Hopefully Dash will react accordingly.
Keep up the good work!
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I invoke creative license here. Honestly, though, she does tend to overreact and get angry easily, and I MAY have exaggerated that character flaw a little, although it doesn't seem like this would be completely out of the question, realistically. I mean, she does harbor a hatred for changelings, wedding and all, and that would have just added to her anger, and taken away from her inhibitions to attack Jason. Just saying.
Thanks for voicing your opinion though. I do see what you're saying.
TWI YOU BITCH OR IDIOT?
Seriously this story is getting goood so MOAR
Hopefully he managed to heal enough of the damage so they won't have to amputate. Let's see..bones were starting to set, which implies that they were at least vaguely the way they were supposed to be....so I dare say they would be forced to cancel the operation, especially considering a changeling cast an "unknown spell" on Rainbow, which means they are required to have her looked at before they do anything else.....
....Holy crap....Didn't realize I knew so much about this kinda thing....
My reaction to Twi's reaction:
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And I understand where you are coming from. It's just a necessary compromise between Twilight being in character and acting like someone raised during true peace and the necessity to create a conflict. It wouldn't be much of a story if they were all simply willing to listen to him. Or maybe it would but it would require more skill? Or completely different plot? Or a different setting?
Of course that doesn't make it any less OOC, but... well, it's probably because couple of stories I follow more or less recently pulled the same card with completely senseless actions from different characters. Not gonna give names, it's just... oh, who am I kidding? I just wanted to vent. But I'm still happy that I managed to retain at least a semblance of logical debate... even if I should not be...
Anyhow, it's still great work you have here. And I should be more lenient. After all, you have consistency here. 'ViolentTwi' is not dropping out of nowhere. We can constantly see it in different moments and it's a natural reaction for her in your story. Unlike some others with behaviour out of nowhere.
Plus, canon Twi is, in fact, getting increasingly more prone to violent and irrational behaviour... I don't like it and it shows mainly in writing of a certain writer *Cough*MeghanMcCarthy*Cough*, but it is canon whether we agree with it or not...
Allow me to reiterate:
Keep up the good work!
oh I think I know what is going on, when twilight asked him where the real Alternis was and he said that Alternis never existed it implied to twilight that RD knew all along that he was a changling which also implied that RD lied to her friends to protect him and she is in denial that RD would do that, but of course if she knew why RD was protecting him then she might have been a little more understanding
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I confess
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jeez twilight no need to go overboard
When dash wakes up. *In twilights basement 5 minutes later* WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO DASH!
Wonderful chapter. I think this is my favorite story so far.
I hope RD gets better soon. Hopefully she can correct Twilight's opinion.
Nice twist. Decided to read this on my windows 98 supprised that old laptop even works.... well nice chapter, now to get back to roller coaster tycoon... Razor rocks here i come!!!!
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Hah! Got you beat, I have a 286 laptop. Some crazy geek managed to cram Windows 3 in it and it can only struggle to boot up enough to squeak out a error box, "Out of memory", then crash because it ran out of memory putting up a error box saying it ran out of memory. Apparently the internal ram and the "massive" hard disk of virtual memory wasn't enough.
The other, newer, laptop is/was running XP but it takes about 10 minutes to fully boot because there's so much crap on it and Dell doesn't give you a Windows CD to reinstall a fresh copy... so it's like an ancient dead tree forest in there. Hundreds of failed uninstalls and chaff from a decade's worth of use clogging everything all up to Hell and back.
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(Waiting for a Monty Python/MLP crossover now)
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OH for the love of Celestia, THERE IS A CROSSOVER! (Heavens part and angels sing)
Here be silly ponies!
And more! Oh joy, there is more to be found!
The Holy Grail
He can cast a shield now? Ok.
So changeling heal everyone and even safe lives or heavy injuries, and everyone around him hurt him and deal heavy injuries to him.
How could thinks go SO WRONG ?
twilight kinda pwns jason alot lol
Thou story is good for making me lol.
This is one of the best stories I have read so far. Better keep on reading. Glad I have so many chapters to read left.
Okay, I got a new favorite
HAh! He's Murphy has a new plaything methinks.
Thats like being kicked in the balls.